http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/environment\/2009\/08\/22\/climate-change-opens-arctics-northeast-passage\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I know this is a website dedicated to animal facts but I wanted to pass along a story that I read from August 22, 2009.\u00a0 I think it shows the effects of climate change in a big way. Two German ships set off on Friday on the first commercial journey from Asia to western Europe via the Arctic through the fabled Northeast Passage \u2013 a trip made possible by climate change. Niels Stolberg, president and CEO of Bremen-based Beluga Shipping, said the Northern Sea Route will cut thousands of nautical miles off the ships\u2019 journey from South Korea to the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[88,89,87],"yoast_head":"\n
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